The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

We often applaud animals for learning tricks. But until recently, we rarely acknowledged that significant intelligence ...

New solutions involve using AI, studying wastewater for early detection – and mining the Tree of Life for compounds that helped in the ancient past.

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.